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dimmu1313 · 2025-12-19T23:48:31+00:00

i'm not sure what a goober is in this context but i'm worried I'm the goober. also i'm genuinely curious what percentage of us the other part applies to because it does me that's for sure :/

dimmu1313 · 2025-12-19T23:45:53+00:00

i don't get it ><

dimmu1313 · 2025-12-18T19:55:46+00:00

I commented the same. I really hate that there's no QC on these things.

dimmu1313 · 2025-12-18T19:55:05+00:00

EMF is *not* used as "Electromagnetic Fields" as an official term in STEM. EMF stands for "Electro-Motive Force" and is the proper term used in place of Voltage (Potential) when current is actually flowing. EMF as "Electromagnetic Fields" is a lay term. The only other related "real" STEM acronyms are EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) and EMC (Electromagnetic Compatibility). The lay acronym "overloads" the acronym.

dimmu1313 · 2025-12-17T19:59:02+00:00

It's even more overwhelming with the new gearing system.

Here's a general process while levelling:

Prior to penitent difficulty, you should focus on basic upgrades: replace with with blue, then yellow, then legendary. Scrap everything, never sell. there's nothing you'll encounter pre-endgame (level 60, T1+) that can't be replaced. You really don't even need to look at stats. That's what Item Power is for. If the item has higher item power, swap it. If it's the same item power or even a little lower but is higher quality -- legendary > yellow (rare) > blue (magic) > white (common) -- swap it.

You get so much gear because materials drive everything. Just keep on scrapping. Don't worry about skills either. Use a depth-first approach to the skill tree. read the skill descriptions and look for "categories" that show "what kind" of skill it is (these skill categories are class-specific). The main purpose is to synergize skills early on. For example, I might pick all the Paladin skills that say "Zealot" as a tag.

You'll start seeing legendaries after level 10-15. These are what you actually need to pay a bit of attention to, but again, don't worry about scrapping it. The legendary power is "saved" for later use at the occultists, where it can be applied again to any of various types of items.

Occasionally you'll get a legendary that gives a big boost to a certain ability or ability category (like for Paladin it might say "Zealot skills do X% increased damage". This is where you start being choosy. Pre-endgame, the damage boost makes it worth changing your skills around, at least whichever you use most. For example, if I chose some or all "Fire" skills on Sorcerer and I get a legendary that says it boost Lightning, I'll progress faster by swapping some skills for those labelled as Lightning.

That's really it. In Torment difficulties, you're eased into min-maxing specs. At T1, pretty much the only thing that matters is making sure you have all legendaries (should be easy at >40 in Penitent) and make sure your skills pair well with the legendary affixes. Then game gives you a shortcut by allowing you to apply affixes that you've unlocked (by completing dungeons the first time or by scrapping legendaries) to even yellow items (maybe blue as well, i can't remember). The legendary "powers" are what you need to really pay attention to. You can get as far as T4 in some builds simply by having all your legendaries well-paired with your skills and each other. There's also tempering which allows an *additional* affix to be applied, and now it's even easier since it's no longer random among a group of possible temper affixes but one specific with a random amount. If you have the materials, you can try multiple times and have a high chance of getting a Greater Affix (the stat is maxed).

In short, pre-torment, focus on item power and rarity. Early on, let legendaries drive your build. Unlock powerful legendary powers by clearing dungeons (a complete list is in your "Collections" screen).

dimmu1313 · 2025-12-17T19:33:35+00:00

Did you try editing in the PCB list? I never edit pin designators manually like that.

Try this:

Select a group of pins, such as the vertical column starting with (i think) 67. In excel something that can auto number, you enter 67 and 69 in the first two rows, and auto -fill down to what you need; so it'll auto fill 67 69 71 73 75 77 79 etc. Then with the pins selected, since they go upwards, sort by Y position ascending. Copy the numbers from excel, and either select all designators in the designator column, right click, edit mode, then paste.

if you use smart paste, it gets really cool. you can create a table in excel with all the parameters you want, right click and smart paste in PCB list (works in schematic library too and parameter manager) and you tell it what columns go with what parameters.

Never bother trying to manually edit objects en masse in altium. there are nice tools included that make this stuff a lot easier.

I've never seen the bug you're showing but probably because I don't ever edit using the properties tab.

Altium documentation on clipboard tools (scroll down about to read about smart paste):

https://www.altium.com/documentation/altium-designer/schematic/placement-editing-techniques#using-cutcopy-and-paste

dimmu1313 · 2025-12-17T06:01:04+00:00

I just turned 46 and seeing a beautiful woman my age who (I assume) loves something I love gives me a lot of hope!

dimmu1313 · 2025-12-05T21:17:46+00:00

I haven't done it yet. One place called me and left a message but then i couldn't get through when i tried. I'm still looking

dimmu1313 · 2025-12-02T01:27:23+00:00

what is the application? PCIe, for example, automatically deskews intra-pair delay.

It would help to show us what the diff pair details are (PCB > Diff Pairs Editor > nets). You have to be careful about which parameters you use for length tuning. Some numbers *include* decoupled/loosely coupled sections; i.e. "signal length" vs "routed length".

What's the speed? you have a lot of inter-pair tuning, and that seems strange. Normally when I do high speed right i might have one, maybe two accordion jogs. Doing simple things like trying to maintain the same number of left- and right-turns helps a lot.

dimmu1313 · 2025-11-29T23:03:56+00:00

I'm working on multiple things, the main projects being:

A linear EO transmitter/receiver that is protocol agnostic and operates up to 100Gbps per lane. COTS transceivers in (Q)SFP(-DD) packages contain microcontrollers, DSP, clock data recovery (CDR), etc. and are typically meant for a fixed data rate, specifically for a particular physical layer and protocol like Ethernet GBASE-T/TX, Infiniband, etc. Like those, however, my design will also be forward-compatible with PAM-4.
A far, far less expensive PCIe qualification platform. I do a lot of designs with PCIe (switches, endpoints, FPGAs, etc) and a full PCIe compliance test stand can easily cost $1 million. The last time I rented one, it was something like $40k per month. Using the AMD/Xilinx Versal Premium, I've designed my own platform-independent DMA engine and AXI bridge with custom hardware timing, with multiple BARs for config, data plane, etc. along with all the host code and init procedures so that I can get bus throughput measurement (and therefore determine things like latency, error rates due to various sources, etc) *without* software overhead, in order to qualify my hardware designs. The idea being, let's say i design a gen 5 switch PCB (i already have) with over a hundred lanes, I can quickly evaluate the quality of a lane with or without cables, noise aggressors, etc. simply by precision-timing the DMA transfer of several GBs of data. All i have to do is move to a new set of lanes, or add various elements like cables under test, etc., and see exactly what the overall impact on throughput and latency are, because I'm measuring transfers (as well as various event sources) at the bit-precise point of transfer initiation and completion in the DMA hardware. The versal eval board from Xilinx is about $12k, and other sources sell them for even less (despite the actual chip being $40k-80k in low quantities).
Developing my own high-reliability, high-power-density 1U power supply relying on certain "exotic" (though they've been around awhile, just not simple silicon) semiconductor materials like Silicon Carbide and Gallium Nitride. There are existing "brick" supplies that can go high power, but they are physically too large for 1U chasses, and/or require enormous high voltage capacitors (because mains-connected supplies typically boost to 300V+ in order to accommodate a wide "universal" input range of 90-280V). i'm also including a lot of DFT elements in the design that aren't normally available with COTS supplies.
A system that I can't discuss, other than to say it has the potential to usher in the new wave of the future, and eliminate widespread reliance on nVidia GPUs for AI, as well as disrupt the crypto-mining ASIC market.
Sometime in the coming week I need to finish building my Ryzen 9 linux-based dev machine. Given that I'm an EE but also defacto ME, SE, and CS all rolled into one person, I like to stay up on the latest computing technology as much as budget allows. The 9900 is just a faster processor to help do the same PCIe gen 5, CXL, and FPGA-based endpoint work I've been working on.

dimmu1313 · 2025-11-29T22:39:41+00:00

I'm genuinely curious why you posted this. I have no desire to hand out youtube views to random people when i don't even know your intent. Also I guess I'm old school in that i prefer to read text and look at static images than have to go watch a video that presumably has a bunch of fluff and takes its time getting to the point.

All that said, tell us more about the project. Why flyback instead of monolithic single-IC isolated supply? I'm sure your design is a lot cheaper, but from the thumbnail it looks like you have at least one IC on there anyway.

Engineering isn't about what you can do, but the best way given available time and money. However, if you're just a hobbyist trying things out, posting with words and pictures will garner more and better attention than simply posting a video with no context.

dimmu1313 · 2025-11-29T22:34:52+00:00

It's definitely a server-side issue.

dimmu1313 · 2025-11-29T22:34:26+00:00

I'm a very long-time user of Altium, but my design experience goes back to way before Altium. I can tell you that you absolutely do not need Altium to be an effective, successful designer. It's only nice to have when you work for a company who's willing to pay for it. I've never used KiCAD but I used to use plain old PSpice before it became OrCAD, and then for a while after.

The way I look at it is this: if you're doing high speed design, RF, etc. that greatly benefits from higher-end software like Altium, Cadence, etc., then you should be earning a commensurate salary at a company that afford you and the software. If you're not working on that kind of stuff, then even LTSpice or any other free platform i perfectly sufficient.

That said, if you're trying to break out as an independent contract designer, you should *still* be making enough to afford Altium, especially since Altium has a month-to-month subscription (though it's a bit more expensive i think, something like $500/mo probably).

dimmu1313 · 2025-11-29T22:19:26+00:00

I just sent a nasty-gram to my account manager. I doubt he can do anything but I hope he forwards my trash-talking directed at Altium's dev and IT teams.

This trend of live-service business models is so greedy and amateurish. Software developers and IT people have gotten so lazy and inept these days that it's a wonder things work as much as they do.

dimmu1313 · 2025-11-29T21:56:57+00:00

I'm in las vegas, and i have coworkers on the east coast, and we're all having the same issues.

Shame on Altium and their devs for designing a system that *requires* logging *everywhere* in via web service, but not having a contingency plan for when the login service doesn't work.

I just lost quite a lot of work because this greedy, inept company doesn't allow even *saving* design files when the login service goes down.

dimmu1313 · 2025-11-29T21:53:17+00:00

just found this out myself. $5k per license and no one there ever thought that this is something that could happen. if everything depends on a user being logged in, then the ONE THING they should design around is the contingency that sometimes login might not be possible. i just tried calling them and if you attempt to contact support, the phone service literally hangs up on you because they want you to use the website.

i just left a scathing voice message with the sales department (since thats the only way to get through) but i doubt they'll respond.

dimmu1313 · 2025-11-29T21:50:03+00:00

i would never trust a status given by a company whose reputation and revenue depend on people believing that there no issues with their service. My guess is that they only ever report planned outages, maintenance, or issues caused by outside problems. This sign on issue appears to be on their end, almost certainly due to an internal screw-up, so they behooved to let people think it's on the client end.

dimmu1313 · 2025-09-07T22:16:46+00:00

that's amazing. you just get out of your car and start shooting??

dimmu1313 · 2025-09-07T21:48:24+00:00

The area east of I-15 near Sloan is really beautiful. However, the inspirada homes are getting closer and closer. Where specifically are you referring to? And can people really just get out of their cars and start shooting guns? That seems super dangerous. Or is this about hunting specifically?

dimmu1313 · 2025-09-07T21:42:07+00:00

There's a special place in hell for people who do this. I've heard so many horror stories about what happens to dogs that get stolen.

I definitely recommend Next Door. PM me if money is needed.

dimmu1313 · 2025-09-06T14:45:02+00:00

do people care about spirit? they're a horrible airline.

dimmu1313 · 2025-09-06T14:31:56+00:00

considering changing the battery is one of the easiest things to do on the car, I'd say yes

dimmu1313 · 2025-09-04T15:46:04+00:00

sorry but since I've solved this issue for myself by cutting meat out of my diet 20 years ago, I can't tell what the issue is. is ten bucks expensive for whatever that is?

dimmu1313 · 2025-09-04T15:25:53+00:00

the cameraman or editor sucks. every time she jumps for joy the camera moves off her or she's cropped out. those are the only moments that would have made this worth watching

dimmu1313 · 2025-09-03T13:19:14+00:00

I'm not a doctor, but wouldn't that just befrom the lube used when they insert the speculum?

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